Ace on "outside Jewish money" and other things

[dave dorkin]

I think we could all agree that it would have been
politically expedient for CM to do so. A point to be
made however is that it is odd to jump all over her
for not doing so when you look at who gets what money
from whom and does what in general, apart from CM and
odder still to say that AC wrote an anti-semitic
tract. The fact that this is one of the only things
that will stir up supposedly liberal Jewish voters
means that it is long past time to play softball with
people whose own errors are rarely questioned. I
imagine that there isnt enough time in the day for
most people to work on the palestinian side of things
and I for one am far more easily convinced and
bothered by Richard Cohen or Tom Friedman's anti-arab
bias (and they are considered liberals for sure) and
it is certainly far more unquestioned without
mentioning Armey's plan for "removing" Palestinians en
masse. Why is attacking AC then any different from AC
attacking Wellstone etc?

--- "Max B. Sawicky" <sawicky at bellatlantic.net> wrote:
> 
> I've gone around on this a few times.  We only get
> tempted to look at Majette's donors because somebody
> else did it to CMK.  I started to do this and
> realized, hey, what am I looking for?  Goldsteins?  
> This is b.s. We are becoming what we're criticizing.
> "Moe Sad"? Anything incriminating is going to be
> concealed.
> 
> Let's not go all Al Gore and blame outside forces.
> CM should have disavowed her Daddy's odious
> statements; she should have asked Louis F. to go
> home. She should not have fudged her endorsements. 
She should have returned the contributions from
Alamoudi (the Hamas 'moderate') and, as a practical
matter, Sami 'Death to Israel' Arian.  This is just
ABC politics. No compromise of principle is involved. 
Most important, she should not have succumbed to
conspiracism, even for a second. If you are
progressive, in politics a second can kill you.> 
> max

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